regardless of whether they would have been conservative or not back before the crash, I think today's bastard version of the band has become is unarguably right wing. They are all about God and guns and the flag. They've tried to hitch their wagons onto that group of people and are making great efforts to cater to their agenda.

Hobodeluxe:regardless of whether they would have been conservative or not back before the crash, I think today's bastard version of the band has become is unarguably right wing. They are all about God and guns and the flag. They've tried to hitch their wagons onto that group of people and are making great efforts to cater to their agenda.

I don't think they've changed a bit. However, having a BLACK MUSLIM PRESIDENT has probably factored into a resurgence of their popularity.

Anybody who thinks the original Skynyrd was just a redneck band hasn't ever listened to "Saturday Night Special". The whole song is about as anti-handgun as it gets. Obviously, the "classic rock" stations don't play it much anymore.

People that love Sweet Home Alabama, just love the song. That's it. They love the riff, and they love the chorus. Nothing more to it. Just like most songs.

Most people never looked at Skynyrd as racists, because most people aren't batshiat crazy liberals or egghead writers that think they are deep.

*ding-ding-ding* (THIS)

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"Sweet Home Alabama," was actually intended ...as a reminder to the rest of America that not all southerners were rednecks. When Skynyrd criticized Neil Young's "Southern Man," it was for the sweeping generalization of all southerners as rednecks. Don't condemn southerners now for what their ancestors did. "We thought Neil was shooting all the ducks in order to kill one or two," Van Zant said. "We're southern rebels, but more than that, we know the difference between right and wrong." In fact, the band was quite outspoken about their disdain for Wallace's policies."

The songs Born in the USA and Keep on Rockin (possibly NY's worst effort) are obvious anti-American screeds, that yes, many conservatives looked stupid in thinking was anything other than that.